Latin American Trade and Transportation Studies

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West Virginia

Welcome to the West Virginia Trade and Transportation Profile Web portal. Here one will find information on transportation and trade information, as well as links to state specific transportation activities. This page will always remain "under construction" as reports and additional information become available and posted. If you have additional reports or comments you wish to share, please contact me at bruce@ittsresearch.org.

1. LATTS State Briefing Report

LATTS developed individual state summaries that estimate the individual needs for each state related to maritime, airports, railroads and highway needs from increased Latin American trade. While the reports are somewhat dated, it is clear that the state's still need to consider international freight movements.

3. International Trade in the State of West Virginia

The following powerpoint contains information about exports that have an origin in West Virginia. These slides contain information on exports from the State based on the Origin of Shipment. The slides contain information on both trading partners, commodities and gateways used by the Virginia firms. All figures are expressed in dollars. (The black background indicates this is a state of origin slide.)

As the origin of shipment information is used to estimate exports by State firms, it may lead to inland states seeing less reported exports than one would expect, and larger volume of exports in gateway states. This reflects the location of the exporter, and not the source of production.

6. Maps Related to Transportation in West Virginia

There are three maps here. These maps were based on the truck assignments from the 2002 Freight Analysis Framework, and show three different transportation flows: domestic traffic, traffic moving to and from the gateways, and a combined total traffic..